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Security Essentials no longer available?

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Sorry for posting here, but I did not find any other forum to contact Microsoft at.

What happened to Security Essentials. I was able to download it and install it last week. Now I suddenly are no longer allowed. When browsing to http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ I get the following message: Not available in your country or region.

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Depending from the country, you are either redirected to your country's MSE site (if there is one) or rejected. You must add a /mkt= string, in this case, e.g. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/mkt=en-us. In Europe, only Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland have localized pages and are accessible without workarounds.Mobile AMD64 3000+, VIA Apollo K8T800 chipset, 1 G RAM, ATIRadeonMobility 9700, 20x DVDRW, C:XPSP3 (55G),D:WIN7 (25G),F:DATA (250G)

I'm not sure but it appears that this support page is again only accessible for those countries where MSE is officially offered at the moment. The language/country selection you get when you click on the top right of the page implies that. This topic is also discussed in the MSE forums (http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en/msestart/threads).Mobile AMD64 3000+, VIA Apollo K8T800 chipset, 1 G RAM, ATIRadeonMobility 9700, 20x DVDRW, C:XPSP3 (55G),D:WIN7 (25G),F:DATA (250G)

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